" ... Now I give you something that few think about: What do you think the Internet is all about, historically? Citizens of all the countries on Earth can talk to one another without electronic borders. The young people of those nations can all see each other, talk to each other, and express opinions. No matter what the country does to suppress it, they're doing it anyway. They are putting together a network of consciousness, of oneness, a multicultural consciousness. It's here to stay. It's part of the new energy. The young people know it and are leading the way.... "

" ... I gave you a prophecy more than 10 years ago. I told you there would come a day when everyone could talk to everyone and, therefore, there could be no conspiracy. For conspiracy depends on separation and secrecy - something hiding in the dark that only a few know about. Seen the news lately? What is happening? Could it be that there is a new paradigm happening that seems to go against history?... "Read More …. "The End of History"- Nov 20, 2010 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll)

Have you seen innovation and invention in the past decade that required thinking out of the box of an old reality? Indeed, you have. I can't tell you what's coming, because you haven't thought of it yet! But the potentials of it are looming large. Let me give you an example, Let us say that 20 years ago, you predicted that there would be something called the Internet on a device you don't really have yet using technology that you can't imagine. You will have full libraries, buildings filled with books, in your hand - a worldwide encyclopedia of everything knowable, with the ability to look it up instantly! Not only that, but that look-up service isn't going to cost a penny! You can call friends and see them on a video screen, and it won't cost a penny! No matter how long you use this service and to what depth you use it, the service itself will be free.

Now, anyone listening to you back then would perhaps have said, "Even if we can believe the technological part, which we think is impossible, everything costs something. There has to be a charge for it! Otherwise, how would they stay in business?" The answer is this: With new invention comes new paradigms of business. You don't know what you don't know, so don't decide in advance what you think is coming based on an old energy world. ..."

Bill Gates urges China's wealthiest to give to charity

Bill Gates: 'Returns from investing in poor people are just as great as [returns] from investing in the business world.' Photograph: Mehdi Taamallah/AFP/Getty Images

Bill Gates
has urged China's extraordinarily wealthy business elite to shed its aversion
to philanthropy and donate to the poor, a potent message in one of the world's
most economically divided societies.

"Only
when we help poor people break away from destitution and illness can the whole
world achieve sustainable development," Gates wrote in the People's Daily,
a mouthpiece of the country's top leadership. "Investing in poor people
requires the involvement of every social strata. I believe that the returns
from investing in poor people are just as great as [returns] from investing in
the business world, and have even more meaning."

China had
358 billionaires at the end of 2013 – a rise of 41 over the previous year and
the second-most of any country in the world, after the US. Yet in terms of
charitable giving, it ranks among the world's worst. According to the World
Giving Index 2013, an annual survey by the NGO Charities Aid Foundation (pdf)
(pdf), China ranked 115 among 135 countries for donating money and last for
volunteering.

While
handfuls of individuals have profited enormously from China's economic boom,
few have shown willing to share their wealth. In 2010, Gates, who runs the
$38bn Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the American business magnate
Warren Buffet asked 50 of China's richest people to join a charity dinner in
Beijing. Many turned down the invitation, reportedly because they were uncomfortable being asked for donations.

Yet the
country's philanthropic record is slowly improving. On Friday, Jack Ma and Joe
Tsai, co-founders of Alibaba, China's biggest e-commerce company, announced
plans to fund a $3bn foundation, the country's largest. The amount represents
about 2% of the company's equity, all of it from the founders' shares.
According to state media, the foundation will focus on environment, education
and healthcare. Yet other details, such as its name and how the money will be
distributed, remain unclear.

Ma, China's
eighth richest man, stepped down as Alibaba's CEO last year and has since
dedicated much of his time to charity efforts. He sits on the Nature
Conservancy's board of directors and helps lead kung fu star Jet Li's One
Foundation.

"When
you register a new foundation in China you need a supervisory agency, so a lot
of people have worried that by registering a private foundation they'd be
giving up control over their personal wealth," said Anthony Spires, a
sociology professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong who researches
China's civil society. "Many of these folks are used to being in charge –
they have very clear issues that concern them
… and they don't want the government to tell them how to spend their
money."

Spires
called the size of the promised foundation "staggering".

"This
will be the largest foundation in China, if they really do it," he said.
"It's on par with Michael Bloomberg's philanthropy."

"My
wife and I had this thought of setting up a personal charitable fund when we
started the business," Ma, 49, told the state newswire Xinhua. "We'd
like to earn money before we turn 50 years old and do charitable work in our
time after 50."

Gates has
responded to Ma's announcement, saying that the foundation will "do an
immense amount of good, particularly in this remarkable time in the development
of philanthropy in China", the newswire reported. Warren Buffet has called
the two Alibaba founders "extraordinary leaders in business [who] have now
become leaders in philanthropy".

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"... Now I give you something that few think about: What do you think the Internet is all about, historically? Citizens of all the countries on Earth can talk to one another without electronic borders. The young people of those nations can all see each other, talk to each other, and express opinions. No matter what the country does to suppress it, they're doing it anyway. They are putting together a network of consciousness, of oneness, a multicultural consciousness. It's here to stay. It's part of the new energy. The young people know it and are leading the way.... "

"... I gave you a prophecy more than 10 years ago. I told you there would come a day when "everyone could talk to everyone and, therefore, there could be no conspiracy." For conspiracy depends on separation and secrecy - something hiding in the dark that only a few know about. Seen the news lately? What is happening? Could it be that there is a new paradigm happening that seems to go against history? ..."Read More …. "The End of History"- Nov 20, 2010 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll)